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– Veto power. [MUSIC PLAYING] In constructing a legislative, executive, and judicial branch of the United States government, the founding fathers built in checks and balances to ensure no branch of government has too much control. One of these checks and balances is the veto– a way for the president to limit the power of …

– Nickelodeon was historically run by women, created by a woman, a mother. You know, I worked at Nickelodeon for six years and when I left Nickelodeon, I was deeply surprised that the rest of the world wasn’t run by women, actually. (white noise) (white noise) – We want to show the world what power …

[email protected] (corrected [email protected]) Extinction Rebellion was set up out of a realization that there’d been a total failure in the impacts of climate change, activism, lobbying and international negotiations for the last 30 years since 1990 carbon emissions have gone up 60% ecosystems are collapsing worldwide and we’re headed for a 4 degree C increase …

Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 near Vinci in what is now the Italian region of Tuscany. By most accounts, his father was a landlord and public official named Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci. His mother, Caterina is commonly believed to have been a local peasant. However, some experts believe that Caterina …

We begin in 1896. In Paris, physicist Henri Becquerel accidentally discovers during an experiment that uranium leaves a trace — or darkens — a photographic plate without any other light source. He concludes that uranium naturally emits a ray he calls “uranique” in French. In the following years, physicists Pierre and Marie Curie discover other …

What exactly do we mean by energy – For our purpose hear energy is the power to do work. For more than 99 percent of human history, the main source of energy to do work was muscle, either human or animal. And fuel for that muscle was food, usually plants and plants ultimately get their …

There’s been so much conversation recently about societal bubbles, echo chambers, media bubbles, personal algorithm bubbles. My newsfeed told me that everyone thought the same way I did. And there’s a conflict there. One of the biggest reasons that those emerged was that companies like Facebook at the end of the day you’re the product …

Beyonce taught us that girls run the world, but sadly the queen bee is gravely mistaken. Throughout history power has always been concentrated in the hands of the few- from the first tribal chieftains and their shamans, to today’s political elite. But sometimes that power has been held firmly within bloodlines, passed down from generation …